Essay1 Describe your educational and professional goals and tell us your specific reasons for choosing to apply to NEC/CIM as you pursue these goals. Why did you decide to pursue music as a career? You must enter your essay into the following text box. Do not send your essay separately via mail or email. To prevent problems with your browser timing out, please create your essay in a word processing program and then cut and paste it into position below. Do not use bold, italics, underlines, indentations or any other formatting in your essay. Formatting variations will be lost when pasted into the box below. Your essay must be 300-500 words. If your essay does not meet the length requirements, you will not be able to submit your application. DMA: Use this space to submit your writing sample on any topic. Artist Diploma: Use this space to submit your Program Proposal discussing how the AD program would assist you in the development of your career. Topics may include your reasons for choosing this program, personal plans and professional goals, and repertoire to be explored as an AD candidate (but may not consist solely of a repertoire list). Essay2 Juilliard’s Admissions Committee uses your essay(s) to learn more about you as an individual and gain a sense of who you are beyond your application, transcript, and audition. Essays should be 1 - 2 pages, double-spaced, and in a 12 point font. Please note that essays should be written in English (not translated from another language) and be your own original work; your signature upon submission of the application indicates that “all information provided on this application is honestly presented,” which includes authorship of required essays. All applicants to the B.M. or Diploma are required to submit one essay in the online application. Transfer applicants and Current or Formerly enrolled Juilliard college students have additional essay requirements (see below). If you had the opportunity to adapt a work of visual art or literature to your own artistic medium, what would you choose? Why? What would your adaptation be like? Essay3 While your audition and music credentials give us an understanding of you as a musician, we'd like to get to know you a little more outside of your musical life. You should have fun with your answer, be creative, and show us the real you! The essay should be about 500 – 750 words and it must be uploaded directly into your online application. Please do not mail us a copy of your essay. Please find the essay prompt below. Tell us about your name. What does it mean? Does it have a special meaning? Do you think your name fits you? Finally, would you ever change your name; and if so, what name would you choose? Essay4 Please observe the following notes: There are two essays on this page. You must enter each essay in the appropriate text box or you will not be able to submit your application. To prevent problems with your browser timing out, you should create your essays ...

1. Essay1
Describe your educational and professional goals and tell us
your specific reasons for choosing to apply to NEC/CIM as you
pursue these goals.
Why did you decide to pursue music as a career?
You must enter your essay into the following text box. Do not
send your essay separately via mail or email.
To prevent problems with your browser timing out, please
create your essay in a word processing program and then cut
and paste it into position below.
Do not use bold, italics, underlines, indentations or any other
formatting in your essay. Formatting variations will be lost
when pasted into the box below.
Your essay must be
300-500
words. If your essay does not meet the length requirements,
you will not be able to submit your application.
DMA:
Use this space to submit your writing sample on any topic.
Artist Diploma:
Use this space to submit your Program Proposal discussing how
the AD program would assist you in the development of your
career. Topics may include your reasons for choosing this
program, personal plans and professional goals, and repertoire
to be explored as an AD candidate (but may not consist solely
of a repertoire list).
Essay2
Juilliard’s Admissions Committee uses your essay(s) to learn
more about you as an individual and gain a sense of who you
are beyond your application, transcript, and audition.
Essays should be 1 - 2 pages, double-spaced, and in a 12 point
font.
Please note that essays should be written in English (not

2. translated from another language) and be your own original
work; your signature upon submission of the application
indicates that “all information provided on this application is
honestly presented,” which includes authorship of required
essays.
All applicants to the B.M. or Diploma are required to submit
one essay in the online application.
Transfer applicants and Current or Formerly enrolled Juilliard
college students have additional essay requirements (see
below).
If you had the opportunity to adapt a work of visual art or
literature to your own artistic medium, what would you choose?
Why? What would your adaptation be like?
Essay3
While your audition and music credentials give us an
understanding of you as a musician, we'd like to get to know
you a little more outside of your musical life. You should have
fun with your answer, be creative, and show us the real you!
The essay should be about 500 – 750 words and it must be
uploaded directly into your online application. Please
do not
mail us a copy of your essay. Please find the essay prompt
below.
Tell us about your name. What does it mean? Does it have a
special meaning? Do you think your name fits you? Finally,
would you ever change your name; and if so, what name would
you choose?
Essay4
Please observe the following notes:
There are two essays on this page. You must enter each essay in
the appropriate text box or you will not be able to submit your
application. To prevent problems with your browser timing out,
you should create your essays in a word processing program and

3. then cut and paste them into position below.
Make all text flush left.
Use no hard returns at the end of lines.
Enter one blank line between paragraphs.
500 word limit for each essay.
Some students have a background or story that is so central to
their identity that they believe their application would be
incomplete without it. Please share yours.
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essay 1 = 300-500 words
essay 2 = 1 or 2 pages double spaced
essay 3 = 500 words
essay 4 = 500 words
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here is one of my previous essays i wrote.
Music is always around my world. Music is the most important
thing for me.I was born into a musical family. My father is a
music teacher in the Music Middle School Affiliated to the
Shanghai Conservatory of Music. He is the director of Brass and
Woodwinds. He teaches Trombones and Tubas.
My family lived on campus since my mother became pregnant.
My father’s colleagues always said I am growing with music.
When I was three years old, I learned violin with my neighbor
who taught violin in The Shanghai Conservatory of music. Since
I was going to school, I did not have time for practice, but I
still watched the musical and opera on the way to school in my
father’s car. Fantasia is still my favourite musical. There is one
piece that influenced me a lot -- “Rhapsody in Blue” by George
Gershwin
. This piece had an amazing piano part. I heard a lot of piano
music before, but that one made me interested in piano. When I
was six years old, my first instrument moved to my room: a
piano. At the beginning, It was not very good start. I did not
know how to read the music until I had lessons with my piano

4. teacher for about three months. My dad was really mad about
this, or he can not believe it. I could play a sonata, but I could
not read music. I watched my teacher’s hand moving carefully
and listened to the music around and around. The I could play it
and without sheet music.
When I was 3rd grade, my school work was getting harder. That
reduced my happiness.I did not have enough time for
practice,but I still kept practicing everyday. On my eighth
birthday party, my father’s friend who was my first harp teacher
gave me the best gift a little harp. I always said the harp was my
favourite ‘toy’.
A lot of people asked me, ‘your father is a trombone teacher,
why didn’t you choose trombone?’ Although I did not learn
trombone with my father, I learned a lot of things from him. He
always gave some suggestions for practice and choosing music.
I went to my father’s school since I was in the 4th grade. Then
everything changed, I became more confident and more
outbound. I went abroad for exchange programs many times. I
went to different countries. I learned different cultures and the
different ways of study. I want to Europe every summer for
summer camp. Since I went to Europe, I knew how the
composers were thinking and feeling because classical music is
not from my country. I wanted know more about the real
classical music. Music changed my life and made me better.